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Article OUR ARCHITECTURAL CHAPTER. ← Page 4 of 4 Article THORNTON JOHN HERAPATH, F.C.S. Page 1 of 7 →
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Our Architectural Chapter.
Bro . William Hunter is another valued contributor , who shows what has been done in Edinburgh besides the now Masouic Hall . We record therefore the following Lodge rooms : — Canongate Kilwinning , No . 3 , in St . John ' s Street , Canongate . Lodge of Journeymen , No . 8 , described by Bro . Hunter ; St . DavidNo . 315 in Hyndford ' s Close
, , ; St . James , No . 97 , in Writer ' s Court ; besides five Lodges meeting in rented Lodge rooms . We likewise get the date of 1743 for a Masonic hall in Edinburgh , being earlier than any hall ju London . We must now beg our Edinburgh correspondents to give us particulars of the other Lodges .
We are glad to witness that in tho colony of Turks Island , in the Bahamas , a Masonic hall is in contemplation . Wc trust it will receive assistance in this country . The maritime Lodges would , we should think contribute , as their seafaring members arc likely to visit Turks Island . There arc , we are glad to sec , prospects of a Masonic hail at
Dudley . AVe have also to register the Masonic hail of St . Andrew ' s Lodge , Toronto , Canada West ; and likewise the appointment of Bro . Frederick J . ilastrick , as Grand Superintendent of Works for Canada , a very suitable appointment ; he is a civil engineer .
Thornton John Herapath, F.C.S.
THORNTON JOHN HERAPATH , F . C . S .
AMOSO those personal circumstances connected with the Order , of which Masons are justly proud , is the fact that men of science have been enrolled among its members in all ages . Without entering upon remote and controverted periods , we may simply refer to those who , in the seventeenth , eighteenth , and nineteenth centuries , in all parts of the world have not only become participators in our
mysteries , but active and zealous brethren among us . Wren , uniting the rig id habits of the mathematician and the various and creative faculties of the artist , may be taken as a type of those men from whom the physical sciences received a new birth—as already the science of mind and the treatment of literature and the drama had been remodelledas too , at a still earlier period , the fine arts . In the last century , if
England were less distinguished for its Masonic philosophers , on tho continent there was hardly one man of eminence in physical philosop hy wdio is not known to have entered our ranks : and that is a period of " Masouic history , in which science especially nourished in our Lodges . It was among their brethren , in these Lodges , that some of the most important scientific discoveries were lirst made known .
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Our Architectural Chapter.
Bro . William Hunter is another valued contributor , who shows what has been done in Edinburgh besides the now Masouic Hall . We record therefore the following Lodge rooms : — Canongate Kilwinning , No . 3 , in St . John ' s Street , Canongate . Lodge of Journeymen , No . 8 , described by Bro . Hunter ; St . DavidNo . 315 in Hyndford ' s Close
, , ; St . James , No . 97 , in Writer ' s Court ; besides five Lodges meeting in rented Lodge rooms . We likewise get the date of 1743 for a Masonic hall in Edinburgh , being earlier than any hall ju London . We must now beg our Edinburgh correspondents to give us particulars of the other Lodges .
We are glad to witness that in tho colony of Turks Island , in the Bahamas , a Masonic hall is in contemplation . Wc trust it will receive assistance in this country . The maritime Lodges would , we should think contribute , as their seafaring members arc likely to visit Turks Island . There arc , we are glad to sec , prospects of a Masonic hail at
Dudley . AVe have also to register the Masonic hail of St . Andrew ' s Lodge , Toronto , Canada West ; and likewise the appointment of Bro . Frederick J . ilastrick , as Grand Superintendent of Works for Canada , a very suitable appointment ; he is a civil engineer .
Thornton John Herapath, F.C.S.
THORNTON JOHN HERAPATH , F . C . S .
AMOSO those personal circumstances connected with the Order , of which Masons are justly proud , is the fact that men of science have been enrolled among its members in all ages . Without entering upon remote and controverted periods , we may simply refer to those who , in the seventeenth , eighteenth , and nineteenth centuries , in all parts of the world have not only become participators in our
mysteries , but active and zealous brethren among us . Wren , uniting the rig id habits of the mathematician and the various and creative faculties of the artist , may be taken as a type of those men from whom the physical sciences received a new birth—as already the science of mind and the treatment of literature and the drama had been remodelledas too , at a still earlier period , the fine arts . In the last century , if
England were less distinguished for its Masonic philosophers , on tho continent there was hardly one man of eminence in physical philosop hy wdio is not known to have entered our ranks : and that is a period of " Masouic history , in which science especially nourished in our Lodges . It was among their brethren , in these Lodges , that some of the most important scientific discoveries were lirst made known .